The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-02-25

officers and men from the mercantile marine
of Cne United States The senate-45 to q =
passed Hale's bill for the increase Of the
| naval establishment The nays Were: Messrs
Coke, Jones tArk}, Plumb Vance Van Wyck,
Vest and Voorhees, The bill provides fot
the construction OF heavily srmored vessels
for coast defense and also for gun boats and
torpedo boats and appropriating Sl5. .4OO.-
600 TO be available during five years from
| March 4. 1887. The house bill to establish
the order of promotion in the medical de-
partr,ent of the army passed: The senate
| resumed consideration OF the Eads Tehuan
| tapec ship railway bill, and Mr.. Vest offered
| . substitute to the bill
As thus amended. the amendment wa
agreed to. The substitute was then agreed
| TO without discussion, and the bili, ms thus
| amended, was passed-yeas 46, nays z. The
| nays were Messrs. Edniunds. Jones tArk).
Morrill,, Platt, Vance, Yum Wyck and Wilson
| Qowa).
THE LOWER BRANCH.
By vote IS to 16O, the house refused to
| pass the Texas seed bill over the veto. When
| the house had disposed of the Mormon bill
and the diplomatic nppropriation bill Mr..
Randall, from the committee no upplopria-
ttOns, reported back the sundry civil service
| appropriation bill, with senate amendments
recommending concurrence in Twenty-Five
and nonconcurrence in 236 amendments
The chief points in controversy We're rela-
tive to the appropriations for the coast sur
| vey and the seamen's retreat in New York.
SENATE.
WAsH1SGToN. Feb. 1S-The senate took
up the river and harbor appropriation bill.
| The bill reported by the committee on COM
merce as a substitute Tor the bill passed by
| the house was read, and various amend-
lnents were offered by the chairman OF the
| committee. Mr.. Mcmillan, and adopted.
These were generally an increase of amounts
| OF various items On motion of several
senators, other items were increased. Mr..
| Edmunds moved TO strike out of section 3,
which provides for the requirement by con-
| dennation of lands or material necessary in
the prosecution of works of improvement,
the proviso authorizing tho secretary of war.
when the price asked by the owner shall be
reasonable. to purchase the property with
| out further delay. Defeated--Yeas IL, NAYS
| 81. Tle section and proviso were both
modified by striking out the words "or ma
| terlaL"
The senate to-day adopted the conference
report on The anti-polygamy bill by only
thirteen dissenting votes Mr. Hoar, the
only Republican who voted in the negative,
did so because the bill aboishes woman suf-
| frage in Utah. The Democrats who voted
| against the bill opposed the measure on con-
stitutionnl grounds Aside from the general
argument that the law is oppressive and in
fringes the rights of the citizens, the specific
| charge is made that the provision relative to
the Mormon Emigration company is prac-
\ tical confscatlon OF private property in vio-
lation OF the constitution in that the assets
of this corporation are devoted to school
purposes and tho corporation is practically
escheated to the state. To this the sup
porters of the bill reply that provision Is
made for the return to the stockholders
| Of the entire amount OF their invest
ment and that it Is the remainder only
| which is devoted to school purposes.
TRANSACTED IN THE HOUSE
The senate amendments to the invalid pen
sion appropriation bill were nonconcurred
| in and u conference ordered. Mr.. Weaver
| (Neb called up the vetoed pension bill of
Simmons W. Hart. The house refused to
pass the bfll over the veto-1I2 to 9S. The
house went into committee OF the whole on
the senate enmendmenUs to the sundry civil
bin, md 10G of the 2G0 pages of the bill
wero, disposed Of An evening session was
held for the consideration OF pension bills